The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-17
LUXURY'S SWIFT WHEELS
THE vEsTlBULE TRAINS FLYING
SCHEDULE.

New Workers Put Within Eighteen
Hours ofthe American Riviera-The
First Train to Run Through on the
Opening of the Ponce de Leon Hotel
on Jan. 10.
1.-THE vestibule train has materialized in all
its glory" said General Manager Haines,
of the Savannah Florida and Western rail
way, last light. The train has in fact
materialized and Col Haines has prepared
the schedule upon which it will run. 1t will
leave New York on the morning of January
9th, at $3.50 o'clock. 1t will arrive here at
1910 a. IN. of January 10th, and will reach
Jacksonville at 3:45 p. m. of that afternoon.
The passengers will then be ferried over the
St Johns and taken to St Augustine. That
night the Ponce de Leon, the new $3,000,000
hotel will be opened with a grand din
ner which will be given to the excursion
party arriving on the train.
The party will remain at the Ponce de Leon
that night, and will leave st. Augustine at
o'clock on the morning of Jan. IL, and
connect with the vestibule train, which will
leave Jacksonville at l0:40 a. M, leave Sa-
vannah at $40 p. m, and arrive in New
York at p. M. on Jan. IL.
THE FAST SCHEDULE.
This train will leave New York again on
Friday, the 18th, and again on Wednesday,
the 18th. The second train will arrive from
Chicago in time to leave New York on the
Goth, and after that date the trains will
leave New York and Jacksonville, both
ends of the line, on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays. The route will be over the
Pennsylvania Central, the Atlantic Coast
Line, and the Savannah, Florida and
Western.
The train will consist of one baggage car,
three sleepers, one dining and one smoking
car, making six cars in all, but the dining
cars will be run only from New York to
Richmond and from Charleston to Jackson
vile. The engines, which were built by the
Rhode Island Locomotive Works, Provi-
dence, r. l., are now on the way. They
have six-foot driving wheels and are ex-
pected to be the fastest engines in the South.
LUXURY on WHEELS.
The train will be the most elegant and
comfortable train that has ever been run on
rails. There is only one other vestibule train
now running in the country. 1t runs be-
tween New York and Chicago, but it was
built when the vestibule cars were first in
vented, and has not all the improvements
which will add so greatly TO the comfort of
travelling in the Southern trains. The cars
are finished in inlaid work, and are deco
rated as deliberately as possible. They are
upholstered in the most ele-
giant manner, and the discomfort
of travelling is reduced to a minimum
by the double springs-which almost render
the motion of the car imperceptible-and
the dust-proof windows The handsomest
car of all will be the smoking car, which,
instead of having seats, is furnished with
divans and easy chairs of the most ex-
quisite pattern. 1t contains also a book
case filled with a choice collection of books
and buffet filed with something else.
The deadly car stove has been abolished
from the vestibule trains, which will be
heated by steam from the engines and
lighted by electricity. Altogether it seems
impossible to conceive how a train could be
more perfect than these are, beautiful in
every detail of construction, robbed of the
jolting and Earring that is so tiresome, free
from dirt and dust and heated and lighted.